Eyeglasses.



UNITED STATES Patented December 15, 1903.v I

PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND KREUTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EYEGLASSES..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 746,711, datedDecember 15, 1903.

Application iiled August 3| 1903. Serial No 168.125. (No model.) u i Toall whom it .may concern.-

Be it known that I, FERDINAND KREUTER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of NewYork, in the county of New York and State ofNewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEyeglasseaof which the following is a specification.

In the use of eyeglasses wherein the nosespring and nose-guards aresecured to the studs or posts of the lens-mounting by screws it is oftenthe case that the studs or posts and the screws touch or press againstthe sides of the nose, with the result that the posts and screws becomerusty from contact with the skin and the skin becomes discolored andirritated from contact with the posts and screws. Especially is thistrue with fleshy persons. A

The object of my invention is to so construct the glasses as to obviatethese difficulties; and to this end my invention consists in combiningwith the posts, nose-guards, and nose-spring of eyeglasses shields orprotections which shall press against the sides of the nose, so as tocompress the nose and shield it from contact with the posts and screws.

The invention also consists in the special construction of the parts,all. as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made and which forma part'of this specification, Figure l is a front elevation of a pair ofeyeglasses'provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevationof the same, and Fig'. 3 is a like View showing the facing of thenose-guard shifted to one side.

In the drawings, 2 2 represent the lenses; 3 3, the studs or posts ofthe mounting; 4, the nose-springand 5 5 the nose-guards. The nose-springand the nose-guards are secured by screws 6 6 in the heads or boxes 7 7of the studs or posts, as shown.4 The nose-guards 5 5 are each providedwith a facing 8, of shell,

celluloid, hard rubber, or other suitable material. This facing 8 isformed with a main part 9, which covers the main grasping part 10 0f thenose-guard, and with a branch 12, which covers the arm 13 of thenose-guard and extends at its upper end 14 over and in front of theupper end of the guard and in front of the box 7 of the stud or post andover the screw 6, thus'serving, under the pressure of the nose-spring,to press the iiesh of the nose away from the stud or post and away fromthe screw, so that the skin does not come in contact therewith.

In itting glasses having my improvement to customers the lower end onlyof the facing will be secured to the metal part of the noseguard by arivet l5, which allows the guard to be swung to one side, as showninFig. 3. In this condition the nose-guards are secured to the stud orpost by the screws 6, and then the facing is turned to place and securedby a rivet 17, as shown by Fig. 2.

Having thus described-my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In eyeglasses, lens-mountings, studs or posts secured to saidlens-mountings, nose` guards secured at their upper ends to said postsor studs, and facings for said noseguards pivoted at their lower ends tosaid noseguards, their upper ends projecting above and held in front ofsaid studs or posts, substantiaily as described.

2. The combination with the nose-guards having a main gripping-face andan attaching-arm, of a facing composing a main grasping part 9, and abranch l2, the upper end 14, of which covers the screw by which thenoseguard is attached to the post of the eyeglasses, substantially asdescribed.

FERDINAND -KREUTER Witnesses:

H. A. WEST, A MATTHEW BURNS.

